Mayors have varying degrees of power and influence. But one thing they have in common is a unique position from which they can – and should – speak for and to the people of their cities. This power might be
Three more men have been arrested in London today on suspicion of planning a terror attack in the capital, with links to ISIS, according to a statement released today by the Metropolitan Police. The arrests on Monday were linked to
A Conservative Member of Parliament has launched a scathing, anti-Semitic attack on pro-Israel groups in the United States during a Backbench Business Debate in Britain’s House of Commons this evening. Andrew Bridgen, who was accused of sexual assault in 2011,
WESTMINSTER, United Kingdom – The British Parliament has tonight voted, in a non-binding motion, to recognise the State of Palestine. The decision, to recognise “A State of Palestine alongside that of a State of Israel as part of a two
During tonight’s UK parliamentary debate on Palestinian statehood, Sir Richard Ottaway MP abandoned his long-standing commitment to the State of Israel, and claimed that due to a few months of frustration in amongst years of support for the country, he
The preparedness of Britain’s hospitals for the arrival of a potential ebola epidemic is under question after a suspected case triggered chaos at a London hospital on Saturday where staff were “panicking and scared” and failed to put the patient
Russia’s justice ministry has applied to the country’s supreme court to “liquidate” Memorial, Russia’s leading human rights organisation. The Nobel Peace Prize winning organisation has been a thorn in the side of the Kremlin for many years thanks to its
Britain’s Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has confirmed that he believes Britain will experience its first case of Ebola within the next three months. In a statement to the House of Commons the minister said that whilst the general risk to
Few who saw Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai – the 17-year-old Pakistani girl who was nearly killed by the Taliban and who then went on to become an activist for female education – finger-wagging about the frivolousness of social media will
The UK is set to lose its veto on the EU budget at the end of this month as controversial elements of the Lisbon Treaty are put onto the statute books. On the 31st October, 43 major policy areas will
LONDON (Reuters) – Jury members were sworn in on Monday at the start of a terrorism trial that prosecutors had tried to hold entirely in secret – a bid unprecedented in recent British legal history. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)
Britain’s foreign secretary said Monday in Baghdad he hoped Scotland’s decision to remain in the United Kingdom would inspire Iraqis to remain united. Scotland voted to reject independence last month after a close referendum campaign in which it had looked
Thirty years ago, a terrorist bomb exploded at the Conservative Party conference, killing five people and wounding 34. Now, former party chairman Lord Tebbit has said he will never forgive the man who planted that bomb, branding him a “creature”.
At the weekend the Prime Minister risked the wrath of the politically correct left by posing with some traditional Morris Dancers who had ‘blacked up’ for the Banbury Folk Festival near his constituency. However, anyone criticising David Cameron will be
The “cash-strapped” BBC has been enjoying a spending spree on Apple products over the last few years, dropping £2.5 million on more than 4,000 iPhones, 400 iPads and 800 MacBooks for staff in just eighteen months. New figures reveal that
Police have been warned that Islamic terrorists may be planning to behead a serving officer, in a similar killing to that of Drummer Lee Rigby last year. Rigby was victim of a horrific attacked outside Woolwich Barracks when he was
The Conservative MP for Monmouth David Davies has called for the French Army to be drafted in to help protect cross-Channel ferry passengers. Police in the port town are preparing to join a mass rally over migrants camped in Calais
The Human rights lawyer perhaps best known for her marriage to Hollywood actor George Clooney is heading to Athens to advise the Greek government on the controversial ‘Elgin Marbles’. Mrs Clooney will meet Greece’s Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Culture
A new agreement has been struck within the 20-member alliance of nations against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, meaning for the first time coalition forces will be able to strike at ISIS from close range by flying from
Former Member of the European Parliament Godfrey Bloom is set to resign from the UK Independence Party following what Breitbart London understands has been a long-term decline in the working relationship between him and the party since his resignation from
An ex-prostitute has walked 500 miles across France in protest against the shelving of a bill designed to criminalise paying for sex. Rosen Hicher, who worked as a prostitute for 22 years before quitting in 2009 told journalists assembled at
Terrified Kobane residents have spoken of the horror inflicted on them by jihadist fighters belonging to the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Some of the atrocities include beheadings, amputations, eye gouging and the complete destruction of livestock, with refugees now flooding across
Douglas Carswell, UKIP’s newly elected MP, has suggested the next defector to the party will be from Labour, according to the Sunday Times. He claimed to have had a discussion with an unnamed Labour MP on Friday morning and they discussed
Over the course of the next 24 hours, international news outlets will mindlessly report that the UK Parliament has “voted in favour/against a motion to recognise the State of Palestine”. And that would be true, save for the fact that
